This
past Tuesday night, I sat in my chair watching NBC’s Lester
Holt report on two black kids, 15 and 16, along with a bi-racial kid
shoot and kill a 22 year old Australian college kid on a training
run past their house in Duncan, Oklahoma.

When
asked why they did it. They responded, “For the fun of it.”

The
news reported, “Twenty-two-year-old Chris Lane of Melbourne,
Australia, was killed for no reason while out running in the town
of Duncan, Oklahoma. Police arrested Chancey Luna, 16, James Edwards,
15 and Michael Jones, 17, on first degree murder charges.”

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Duncan
Police Chief Dan Ford said the boys gave the simplest of motives,
“Overcoming a boring end to their summer vacation.”

The
16 year-old Luna said they were bored and killed Lane for "the
fun of it."

They
shot him in the back after he ran past their house. I sat in my chair
dumb-struck at the utter horror, stupidity and sickening savagery
of the entire report. Lester Holt remained emotionless while speaking
his words to millions of Americans. It turned my guts. It made me
sick to my stomach. The killing left a gaping “why” in
my brain.

Will
millions of African-Americans protest in the streets because two black
boys and a bi-racial boy killed an Australian white kid running past
their house “for the fun of it”? Will they call for justice
like they did in the Trayvon Martin case? Will white Americans protest
the killings by taking to the streets and demanding justice?

Sadly,
blacks and whites won’t even whimper a sound at the killing
of the white Australian college man named Chris Lane. But I want to
delve into this type of insanity a little deeper.

I
think our society suffers from a deep down sickness for too many of
its citizens. Every 15 seconds, some American man, whether husband
or father, beats the hell out of a woman.

"Violence
against women is pervasive throughout the United States. One in four
women will experience domestic violence at some point in their lives.
On average, three women are killed every day at the hands of a current
or former intimate partner."~ National Network to End Domestic
Violence.

Estimates
range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former
spouse or girlfriend to three million women who are physically abused
by their husband or boyfriend annually.

Those
factoids sicken me. What causes such incredible violence to the weaker
sex? Why don’t we address it? The causes? The solutions?

Surely
we could encourage community, jobs, education and fellowship to vanquish
such violence within our country. Instead, we fund 10 year wars that
kill even more people by guns, bombs and poisons.

Black
on Black killings in America: 7,000 murders annually

According
to a study conducted by the Bureau
of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011 there were 279,384
black murder victims, which means that 262,621 were murdered by other
blacks, resulting in the 94 percent figure. While blacks make-up only
13 percent of the nation’s population, they account for more
than 50 percent of homicide victims.

So
what’s the source of the problem? As Publius notes, “The
problem is not among the black population as a whole; rather, it is
due to a “small sub-culture that glorifies violence and lives
and dies by the gun.” It is the gang culture, characterized
by widespread criminality, tribalistic warfare, through-the-roof unemployment,
extremely high rates of out-of-wedlock births (72.1 percent among
blacks in 2010), widespread welfare dependency, and nihilistic art
typified by “gangster rap.”

Black
on White killings in America

•
In 2011, of the 12,664 murder victims in America, 50% were Black and
46% were white.• In 2011, 52% of the offenders in these murders
were Black and 45% were white.• One other stat: 90% of perpetrators were
men.

White
on Black killings in America

Intra-racial
violence holds for whites. Eight-three percent of white murders in
2011 were within-race killings. This data tells us that murder, for
the most part, in America does not come from racial hatred. Most killers
kill within their race.

Suicide
Among the Young in America

•
Among persons aged 15 to 24, suicide ranks as the third leading cause
of death in America. About 18 teens kill themselves daily or one Columbine
High School rampage 24/7.• In 2000, over three million youth seriously
considered suicide in the USA and over one million attempted suicides.
That equates to over 2,700 attempts daily or two attempts every 60
seconds.

As
a nation, as a civilization, as a culture and as a multicultural society—we
desperately need leadership that focuses on funding for thorough and
successful education for whites, blacks, browns and all other children.
We need to create jobs for our teens to give them worth, financial
energy and moral direction. We need to stop the 71 percent of out-of-wedlock
birth rates for African-Americans and white Americans if we hope to
bring any kind of reasonable male-female balance to the rearing of
our children.

As
it stands, those children face being brought up as savages rather
than human beings. Right now, two black kids and a bi-racial kid face
the rest of their lives behind bars. Right now, an entire community
in Australia faces life without their outstanding son who trusted
America enough to come and play baseball.

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As
a culture, and a country, America needs to stop wasting money, military
and brute power in hundreds of countries around the world. We need
to elect representatives who focus on making our country a place where
teens grow up with ethics, morals, direction, homes, jobs and purpose—to
live a fruitful and positive life. As it stands today with those three
kids and hundreds of thousands like them, the violence toward women,
the suicides and the crime rates—we fail miserably.

I
think I am going to have a sickening gut ache for a very long time.

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They shot him in
the back after he ran past their house. I sat in my chair dumb-struck
at the utter horror, stupidity and sickening savagery of the entire
report. Lester Holt remained emotionless while speaking his words to
millions of Americans. It turned my guts. It made me sick to my stomach.
The killing left a gaping “why” in my brain.